DELAWARE VALLEY REGIONAL PLANNING COMMISSION
REGIONAL TRANSPORTATION COMMITTEE
| TUESDAY, OCTOBER 8, 2002 10:00 AM A light lunch will be available. |
AGENDA
| 10:00 a.m. | Regional Transportation Committee Meeting Begins | |
| 12:00 p.m. | Lunch | |
| Immediately after lunch there will be a Pennsylvania and New Jersey Subcommittee meeting on Transit Support Program (TSP) and Supportive Highway Regional Planning (SHRP) project development for FY 2004. | ||
During the course of the fiscal year, it becomes necessary for the State Departments of Transportation (DOT's) and/or transit operators to amend the TIP. Amendment 03-02; I-95 Noise walls from Freida Street to Station Avenue in Bucks County.
The Board Work Program committee held its first meeting on the morning of the regular Board Meeting in September. The list of core projects, revenue assumptions, staff recommended projects and member government/agency candidate projects were distributed. Included in this mailing are various lists of projects the RTC may review, and recommend a priority list of 6-8 projects for the next meeting of the Work Program Committee on October 17, 2002.
The Delaware Valley ITS Technical Task Force, a group of approximately 35 public/private organizations in the region, meets regularly to achieve the goal of coordinating traffic management, transit management, incident management, and traveler information services through the deployment and integration of intelligent transportation system (ITS) technologies. This update will highlight several of the on-going ITS projects that the Technical Task Force is currently involved in.
The Bureau of the Census has released the 2000 Urbanized Area and Urban Cluster file. Staff has prepared a series of maps for the DVRPC region and surrounding area. Calculation of the urban population for the reg ion requires some effort and is currently under way. The Urbanized Area and Urban Cluster delineations are complex and will be modified or "smoothed" consistent with US DOT criteria to make areas suitable for funding program determinations, such as highway federal-aid classification.
The results of a travel time survey conducted in 1997 will be presented. Highway travel times were collected for all roadway types in a sample of each area type. Transit travel times were assembled from schedule information.
PennDOT, Montgomery County, Chester County and DVRPC staff have worked cooperatively over the last year to identify improvements to the transportation system in and around the Valley Forge Park. Boles Smyth and Associates are the lead consultants in this effort. A Status Report will be provided.